BNP International Affairs Secretary Masud Ahmed, speaking to Prothom Alo, said that BNP leaders have been arrested in political cases. The reality is that if BNP leaders including General Secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir do not get justice in the court, they will have to remain in jail.
Several central leaders of BNP, including Mirza Fakhrul Islam, two standing committee members Mirza Abbas and Ameer Khasru Mahmood Choudhary, three vice-presidents Shahjahan Omar, Altaf Hussain Choudhary and Shamsuzzaman, joint general secretary Syed Moazzam Hussain, organizing secretary Imran Saleh, BNP. Media cell coordinator Zaheer Uddin Swapan, Dhaka North City BNP member secretary Aminul Haq have been jailed in cases registered over the violence that broke out on the day of the BNP’s grand rally on October 28. Many BNP leaders are still in hiding.